Herod Elementary on Jason, built in 1965. Wonderful school. I hear they are tearing it down and rebuilding this summer. I was in kindergarten there the year after the school opened and was there through 6th grade, so that building remains fairly vivid to me. The classrooms have big window walls facing both the exterior and the interior corridors, which had an outdoor feel because of skylights, gardens and flooring that's more like an exterior pebble sidewalk. (My architect spouse says I'm describing stone aggregate paving.) Unfortunately, I cannot find a decent comprehensive photo of the school online. If you're familiar with the school, imagine it without the misplaced blue sign out front. The school existed for decades without it. This photo of a bit of the school doesn't exactly show much. http://es.houstonisd.org/HerodES/ This seems to be taken in one of those indoor-outdoorsy hallways, which seem to have more flora, or more mature flora, now. I don't remember those bulletin boards in the hallway (there were two hallway wings), maybe they were there all those years ago, though. http://es.houstonisd.org/herodes/news/Jane...ith%20trash.jpg Here are the plans for the new school. Looks like they're completely refiguring the site. http://es.houstonisd.org/herodes/New_School.htm Here's a thread from this very site about the plane crash that took the life of the heroic pilot, Gary L. Herod, for whom the school was named. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=9196 I guess I'm fairly true to my school.
